Bayou Bounty, No Matter the Twists and Turns, the Trail Always Leads Back to the Heart

Jerry the bail bondsman hires bounty hunter Lou Ogletree, Nathaniel Onebear, and Donny Jackson to find a bail jumper, Dr. Grace Byland, and bring her back to stand trial for murder.Grace thinks she knows who really killed the man the DA’s office claims she killed. She just has to prove it, but she can’t. Can Grace convince Lou and her bounty hunting team to help her prove her innocence? More

Jerry the bail bondsman hires bounty hunter Lou Ogletree and her crew Nathaniel Onebear and Donny Jackson to find a bail jumper, Dr. Grace Byland, and bring her back to stand trial for murder.

Out on bail, Grace thinks she knows who really killed the man the DA’s office claims she killed. She just has to prove it, but she can’t. The killer is too powerful. He owns the world where she lives and works. So Grace does what she does best. She runs back to the Bayou swamps to hide until she can come up with a plan. She’s determined to prove who’s doing this to her. She wants to enlist the help of experts.

Grace doesn’t know it yet, but the experts she needs are busy getting lost in the swamp searching for her. Lou and her team of bounty hunters suit the doctor’s needs perfectly. When a poisonous snake bites Lou in the swamp, Grace sees an opportunity. She reluctantly treats the female bounty hunter who hates her. Can Grace convince Lou and her bounty hunting team to help her prove her innocence?

B.L. has always been in love with books and the words in them. She never thought she could create something with the words she knew. When she read ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird,’ she realized everyday experiences could be written about in a powerful, memorable way. She wasn’t quite sure what to do with that knowledge so she kept on reading.

Walter Mosley’s short stories about Easy Rawlins and his friends encouraged BL to start writing in earnest. She felt she had a story to tell…maybe several of them. She’d always kept a diary of some sort, scraps of paper, pocketsize, notepads, blank backs of agency forms, or in the margins of books. It was her habit to make these little notes to herself. She thought someday she’d make them into a book.

She wrote a workplace memoir based on the people she met during her 20 years as a property manager of city-owned buildings. Writing the memoir, led her to consider writing books that were not job-related. Once again, she did…producing romance novels with African American lesbians as main characters. She wrote the novels because she couldn’t find stories that matched who she wanted to read about …over forty, African American and female.